People: Graduate Student
Haniyeh Abdollahzadeh
Chemical Engineering Graduate Student
Fungal Engineered Living Materials
Shorooq Alharbi
Entomology Graduate Student
Vertical transmission rate of dengue virus in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the factors that influence the maintenance of the virus within mosquitoes population.
Shilpa Susil Bera
Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology Graduate Student
Understanding transcription initiation complexes involved in reiterative transcription, using the E. coli pyrBI and B. subtilis pyrG promoters as model systems by using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to investigate these complexes.
Tyler Chandross-Cohen
Food Science Graduate Student
Characterizing the effect of Bacillus cereus toxin Hemolysin BL in the organisms biofilm formation and colonization capabilities.
Nina Devine
Entomology Graduate Student
Multispecies interactions in cucurbit agroecosystems and the effects of host-plant specialization across trophic levels
Anuleka Dutta
Graduate Student
Developing plant-inspired actuated hybrid robots spanning from macro to nano scales
Fernando Flores López
Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of plant pathogenic bacteria and their interactions with host plants